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The articles title F#king has nothing to do with the programming language F#, it is actually just masking a swear word.

I was confused in the beginning

Yeah, better to leave out the swear word completely from the HN entry, rather than write a confusing euphemism.

It was censored in the original with #@. I’m guessing HN doesn’t allow @ in post titles.

Well, it worked 7 months ago for this item: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895789

The space and capitalisation makes it even more confusing, `f#king` wouldn't have been so bad; `f##king` or `f*king` (or the more common vowel-omission style `f*cking`) better.

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